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Rewatching Psych (2006) right now and nine episodes in there's just NO PLOT. The whole show is just about an insane bisexual man with daddy issues and adhd solving crimes with his equally insane friends. It's just silly jokes and 2000s nostalgia. They don't make shows like this anymore
Hit television show of the 2000 makes us ponder one the the most important questions of our generation: what if Holmes and Watson were fuckin dumbasses
polyamory was invented in 1969 by kirk, spock, and mccoy, and their only true successors are the leverage ot3 and whatever the fuck psych had going on
big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important
the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also
Leverage
you say to me here is a woman. she's insane and irreparably broken and probably a danger to herself and others. and i say yay yippee woohoo! and things of this nature
-Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger.
Thinking About Gender Performance via Eliot in Leverage...
I adore how this show comments on masculinity with Eliot, and the shootout in The Big Band Job represents that perfectly. Eliot doesn’t use guns. We know he can, that’s never been a question, he’s career military until whatever shattered his illusions with that career (I don’t know if we find out, I haven’t finished the series yet). I didn’t want to really comment until I finished the series, but it’s too much of a standout not to comment. In most shows, Eliot would be armed at all times. It would become a running gag how constantly and thoroughly he is armed. He would have to disarm and pull out an inexplicable number of weapons, like Aragorn in The Two Towers or Inej in Shadow and Bone. Alternately, he might become a true pacifist—think Shepherd Book in Firefly. That’s the usual portrayal of a gunman who’s turned his back on guns. Instead, Eliot doesn’t, can’t walk away from that life. So he stays in it without relying on the easy solution. He’s a stone-cold badass because of what he can do unarmed, or scavenge-armed with a shovel or chair or whatever’s on hand. So why do I keep coming back to the scene where Eliot picks up a gun? Where he behaves like the cowboy I’ve seen a thousand different times in a thousand different media? Because the second the camera panned to the gun, my stomach clenched, because this wasn’t about how cool an outlaw is. It was about all the trauma Eliot can barely keep to a simmer that he was about to face head-on because he is still, above all, beholden to and defined by duty. And the way that scene is framed is so, so, so cool. It evokes cowboys and action heroes and The Matrix. The violence is justified: these are bad guys and Eliot is saving Nate. We literally see a handgun jammed down the front of Eliot’s trousers—he has, in the cultural parlance, reclaimed his masculinity. And that’s the toxic masculinity. The soldier. The cowboy. The myth of those roles without the hard work and dirt and early mornings. The cowboy without hardscrabble, the soldier without blood. We know Eliot can step into either role. He is, capital-a capital-m, A Man. And that scene is so, so, so cool. I can’t stop thinking about it. If it were in most shows, it wouldn’t stay with me the same way. It would be heroic and triumphant. In Leverage, what defines that scene? “They don’t need to know what I did.” It's shame. It’s a reminder that no matter how cool and justified and cowboy, this wasn’t the time Eliot took out a bunker full of mooks. This was when Eliot was pushed into such a narrow corner he defied his principles. He broke the rule that keeps everything in check. I don’t leave this episode feeling like Eliot’s a badass. Eliot’s always been a badass. I leave the episode remembering how deeply shattered this character is. In conclusion, no other show does it like Leverage, this is good stuff right here and I’m so glad I found it!
I'm inventing something called "Devereaux weekends" where you take a weekend trip to a town you've never been to, packing only clothes you own but have always been too self-conscious to wear, and putting on a fake identity the entire time, which you can guitlessly shed once you return home
Only Nate and Sophie would have the audacity to think they could handle a “casual relationship” when neither of them has been casual about anything ever in their entire life.
Now, you can take that as a gift, or you can take it as a curse. And that's up to you.
Eliot Spencer and Parker Doing the Things Others Won’t
Leverage (2008-2012)
04x01 The Long Way Down Job
05x09 The Rundown Job
I love the Leverage episodes where they're truly just psychologically tormenting a guy.
Like obviously they first establish that the guy is a terrible guy who does terrible guy things. And we really do need the terrible guy to be doing a lot of terrible guy things because this is kinda an ethical nightmare, but don't worry, they are reliably doing a lot of terrible guy things.
But then it is just like "hey, let's convince this guy that he's made first contact with aliens and also that aliens are trying to kill him" or "hey, let's make this guy believe he's contracted a deadly disease and is going to die in quarantine because medical staff are abandoning him" or "hey, let's first try to persuade this journalist that the government is secretly creating Guantanamo Bay 2: Underground Boogaloo in your backyards and when she doesn't run with that story, let's then make her think that oops the government accidentally leaked some kind of bioweapon into the waterways and now water is gonna kill you instead."
inexplicably one of my favorite dynamics in the show. normal people conversations
Slowly collecting my favorite descriptions of Leverage x
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One thing about Eliot is he's gonna go so in on a grift. A wedding caterer? Get the fuck outta his way he's got two hundred guests to cook for and these canapes aren't gonna plate themselves. A baseball player? Fuck the con he gets a damn sandwich named after him. A supermarket worker? He's doing his full day of work AND THEN starting a union uprising first chance he gets. Sophie is "the grifter" but Eliot is the one who can match and beat her freak for commiting to a character so hard it becomes your new personality for the next week
sometimes i think about how eliot spencer in any other font would be such an annoying character. like he's the gruff, ex-military, man pain guy who gets all the girls. and then they said no! he's a thoughtful and kind man who children love and who has an absolutely mind-obliterating insane amount of ptsd. and he's got long hair, jewelry, and probably some sort of pronouns situation. and he's almost certainly in a sort of queerplatonic throuple with an adhd genius and the most autistic woman(?) alive. what a character
New study technique called "let's go steal a grade" in which I pretend to be a part of the Leverage crew and study for my exams as if I'm studying for the grift. I need enough knowledge that I can con the mark without getting called out.
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